The world’s largest concrete pump, deployed at the construction site of the U.S. government’s $4.86 billion mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site, is being moved to Japan in a series of emergency measures to help stabilize the Fukushima reactors.

“The bottom line is, the Japanese need this particular unit worse than we do, so we’re giving it up,” said Jerry Ashmore, whose company, Augusta-based Ashmore Concrete Contractors, Inc., is the concrete supplier for the MOX facility.

The 190,000-pound pump, made by Germany-based Putzmeister has a 70-meter boom and can be controlled remotely, making it suitable for use in the unpredictable and highly radioactive environment of the doomed nuclear reactors in Japan, he said.

shadecorp

04-02-2011 02:47 AM

Great.

Those folks need all the help they can get.

dunerunner

04-02-2011 02:59 AM

It's about time!! Pump that sucker full of concrete!! The beaches hered are starting to glow!!!

Bigcountry02

04-02-2011 05:24 AM

Heard on the radio news tonight, that the Japanese Government is now requesting a 2nd Concrete Pump.